Water-closet bowl



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I J, KELLY. WATER 'GLOSET BOWL.

No. 535,139. Patented Mar. 5, 1895.

JOHN KELLY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

WATER -CLOSET BOWLi SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 535,139, dated March 5, 1895.

Application filed August 24,1894. Serial No. 521,167. (No model.)

id 0025 whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, JOHN KELLY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in WVater-Closet Bowls, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in the class of water-closet bowls wherein the bowl is provided with an annular flush-channel about its upper portion to receive and direct the flush-water into the bowl. As a bowl in this class is commonly constructed, it is formed of porcelain, stoneware or like frangible material having cast upon it, as the inlet to the flushing-channel, a nipple of the same material as the bowl, at which to attach the end of the flush-pipe; the nipple thus leading into the channel, but not through it. This nipple affords a projection which is very liable to be, and is frequently,broken 01f, especially While the bowl is being transported or the plumbing work is being done to place it in operative condition.

My object is to provide a construction of the bowl whereby this nipple may be entirely omitted; and this I accomplish by forming a transverse opening entirely through the flushchannel in the position usually occupied by the nipple, and fit into the opening a pipesection, preferably, but not necessarily closed at its inner end, which is inside the bowl and where it is flanged and packed to close permanently the inner end of the opening; the outer end of the pipe-section, or that protruding outward from the flush-rim, being adapted to have coupled to it the flush'pipe, and the pipe-section being open in that portion which is within the area of the flush-rim to discharge the supply of flushing-water into the rim or channel transversely of the pipe-section.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows a water-closet bowl, by a view in side elevation, provided with rnyimprove ment; and Fig. 2 is an enlarged broken sectional view of the same.

A is the bowl provided with the circumferential flushing-rim B, all of the usual or any suitable general construction and formed of pottery-ware or like material. I providean opening 4' extending transversely entirely through the rim B at a desired point.

C is a section of pipe of sufficient length to be inserted through the opening 1 and is adapted at the outer surface of the bowl at which it should be threaded (either externally or internally, but preferably the latter) to have screwed upon it a coupling q for the adjacent end of the flush-pipe D and carrying a circular flange p to provide a bearing for a washer 0 for packing the outer end of the opening r. At the inner side of the bowl the opening r is sealed by a washer 0' confined by a tlangep' on the adjacent end of thepipesection.

Within the area of the flush-rim B the pipesection is open, the opening at being preferably of the rectangular shape illustrated and caused to extend transversely through opposite sides of the pipe-section and as large as possible, so that the flush-water from the pipe D, on entering the pipe-section C may discharge transversely from the latter at opposite sides into the flushing-rim or channel B. Thus I am enabled to dispense with the objectionable nipple referred to, thereby removing the feature most likely to be fractured with consequent ruination of the entire bowl.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A bowl A having an opening extending entirely through its flushing-rim, and a pipesection, for the attachment of the flush-water pipe, extending through said opening, bearing against the inner side of the bowl and open inside the flushing-rim, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A bowl A having an opening 1 extending entirely through its flushing-rim and a pipesection C flanged at its end at the inner side of the bowl and provided with packing between said flange and the inner bowl-surface, and a flanged coupling for the flush-water pipe on the outer protruding end of the pipesection and provided with packing between the flange and outer bowl-surface, said pipesection having a discharge-opening or inside the flushing-rim, substantially as and for the "purpose set forth.

JOHN KELLY.

In presence of- M. J. FRosT,

W. N. WILLIAMS. 

